By Maya Ehrmann

Heart of the Matter, an Israeli program sponsored by the European Union, organizes hundreds of Palestinian children's journeys to Israel for heart surgeries. The program is an offshoot of Israeli organization Save a Child’s Heart which for the past 15 years has flown over more than 2,500 children from 43 countries where adequate cardiovascular care is unavailable.

"National Trauma," a term coined by NATAL, Istael's Trauma Center for Victims of Terror and War (NATAL), is meant to exemplify the fact that trauma affects people from all walks of life who have know the Arab/Israeli conflict. To help trauma victims, NATAL has had to innovate trauma care.

Findings following trials on mice and flies by researchers from Tel Aviv University, reveal that an isolated section of the cinnamon plant prevents the development of the disease and may even cure it.

Students from Ben Gurion University in Israel have developed Baby Beat, a software that interprets changes in skin tone and measures a baby’s heartbeat. The software will be used to prevent Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, of which thousands of babies still die every year.

Nano Retina, an Israeli startup founded by inventor Yossi Gross, is participating in the race for more than 45 million blind people worldwide waiting at the finish line: the race of technological development that will allow them to see. It seems Nano Retina might well be the first to truly get there.

A t-shirt that tests heart activity, called Niturit has recently been developed by an Israeli-Portuguese team. The t-shirt can test heart activity and transmit the data to a medical center in real time. The European Space Agency is already using the shirt to test their astronauts.

With nearly 25% infant mortality rate, Ghana asked help from Israel's Agency for International Development in 2007. Nearly five years later, 10,000 mothers and babies have gone through neonatal care in Israeli built clinics.

Brain function is based on tasks and not senses, says new research conducted in Israel and France, which challenges prevailing view among scientists.

Reconstruction of Tel Be'er Sheva's ancient buildings, believed to be the remains of the biblical town of Be'er Sheva, enables an understanding of sophisticated urban planning during biblical times.